Improvement in garden-hose rests



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Nor. 144,415. Patamdfuov.11,1373.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES RYDER, OF GAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY G. WHITE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GARDEN-HOSE RESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,415, dated November 11,1873; application flled August 6, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES RYDER, of Cambridgeport, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Garden-Hose Rest; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following speciflcationA and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a rear view, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of it.

The article s to support and direct a hose for and while watering a garden, grass-plat, or lawn, or a tree or collection of y plants, in order t-o relieve the gardener or attendant in the meantime from the duty of holding the discharge-nozzle or pipe of the hose.

In the drawings, A represents a spout, open at both ends, and hinged at its lower one to a furcated rack, B, formed as shown in top view in Fig. 4, and fastened down upon a circular y head or disk, C. The said head is pivoted to a stand or tripod,D, so as to be capable of being revolved horizontally thereon, the pivot being shown at a. The hinge of the spout is represented at b. There is also pivoted to the spout a strut, E, to step into either of the notches or teeth c of the furcated rack, they being arranged and formed therein in manner as shown. Extending across the spout is a belaying or support bar, d, around which the hose H may be coiled one or more times in order to support it, the handle of the stopcock e of the nozzle f resting on the upper end of the spout.

With the article so made a hose may be supported and its discharge pipe or nozzle be ranged to any inclination or direction that may be required, and be turned about from time to time, so as to discharge Water upon a plant, or tree, or a surface, and while the discharge may be going on the gardener will be at liberty to attend to other duties. The prongs p p of the furcated rack not only answer to support the spout when in a vertical arranged and combined with the spout A, the

rack bar B, the strut E, the rotary head C, and the tripod D, all being applied together and for use in manner and for the purpose as set forth.

CHARLES RYDER.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

